Reuters is claiming an exclusive with the story that says Russia used a think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin to develop a plan to disrupt the U.S. Election and to discredit the electoral system in the United States. So, at least somebody had a plan, probably developed by the former members of the Russian intellgence services who make up the think tank. The plan is supposed to be helping elect someone more friendly to the Russians than President Obama. That part must be a mistake, since President Obama was not the problem in the cabinate and wasn't running for election in 2016. Hillary Clinton was that person and she was not very friendly towards anyone in the Kremlin.
If there was such a plan, it certainly did not disrupt the election or discredit the electoral system. That part is being accomplished with a campaign to discredit the winner and undermine the Presidency, willingly helped along by some not so unbiased people in political parties. The main goal is to prevent the winner from governing. As I have pointed out before, the Russians do not stop when the election is over. Sometimes their candidates lose; sometimes they don't turn out to be as friendly as they thought they might be, but they remain undeterred by setbacks. They have a long history of meddling, but they are much better at it than they used to be. The ultimate goal has a name - Political Warfare. My next book is going to have more details on how this kind of war is being waged. It was not part of the military doctrine that defined Information Warfare because the military did not have a role in it.
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